US Secretary of State said he would discuss concrete steps to minimise harm to civilians in Gaza. Read more at straitstimes.com.
People searching for victims and survivors in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov 2.Israeli soldiers in Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz near the border with Gaza that was heavily damaged during the Oct 7 attack, on Nov 2.The area outside Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City on Nov 2, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas.
“When I see a Palestinian child – a boy, a girl – pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child from Israel or anywhere else,” Mr Blinken told reporters before leaving for Israel. “So this is something that we have an obligation to respond to, and we will.”
Brigadier-General Iddo Mizrahi, chief of Israel’s military engineers, said troops were encountering mines and booby traps.Mr Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, said in a televised speech on Thursday that Israel’s death toll in Gaza was much higher than the military had announced.Israel has said it has lost 18 soldiers and killed dozens of militants since ground operations expanded on Friday.
There was no let-up in the suffering of Palestinian civilians, with United Nations experts saying they were at “grave risk of genocide”.“Water is being used as a weapon of war,” said Ms Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. Palestinians who fled their homes gathering at the Al-Quds hospital following Israeli air strikes on the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
In his meetings in Israel and Jordan on Friday, Mr Blinken said he would also discuss the future of Gaza and laying the groundwork for future Palestinian statehood.on Oct 7. Israel says the militants killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 240 hostages in the deadliest day of its 75-year history.
“I want to pass. We are not animals,” said Ms Ghada el-Saka, an Egyptian at Rafah waiting to return home after visiting relatives.
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